Dickin Medal

The book the Giver by Lois Lowery is told in 3rd person limited. The setting takes place in a futuristic society in several communities and in a utopian/ dystopian world. These communities are ruled by the Elders which are like the community. Somehow everything is controlled in the community, for instance, their jobs, and the weather. The people in the world are really strange because they can not see color, does not know any types of music, nor knows about death. " Release" is the word they

Throughout history, we see how humans often don’t persevere and don’t continue if something isn’t easy. This theme appears throughout The Giver. Jonas often has to sacrifice what he has in order to obtain something. The community also makes sacrifices but these sacrifices are not necessarily the best sacrifices. For example, the community gave up differences so everything could be the same. Many other things were sacrificed too such as snow and colors. Lois Lowry conveys how persevering is imperative

Do you ever wonder what it would be like if you lived in a society where their always trying to make it perfect? In the book “The Giver” by Lois Lowry they have all of these rules and specific things you have to do and follow in order to have a good life in their society. Which makes life in the dystopian society of “The Giver” to be different than our modern day society. One difference between our societies is that they give babies numbers at birth and then give them names at the naming ceremony

“Camp Green Lake is a camp for bad boys”(Sachar 5) Holes by Louis Sachar shows how the main character Stanley changes through the story.Stanley changes from being shy,to being confident because of how sachar describes him in how Stanley behaved in school,how Stanley behaved at Camp Green Lake and,how Stanley did after camp. At the beginning of the story,the author makes the reader believe that Stanley will be a bad boy throughout the story.Stanley will be sent to,”Camp Green lake is a camp for

Jonas’s world is not so splendid to people, although it's perfect to him. Everyone is the same, they dress the same, there personality is the same and they don't have many memories of the past. There world or ,community, is very plain to some people. They have releases which are frightening which would never happen in our world, but in their world is perfect to them. In the novel The Giver by Lois Lowry, Jonas learns that without memories your knowledge is useless, that those who do not feel sorrow

A large majority of the typical people follow the rules that were lead down before them. In the book The Giver the author makes a point of “the world is nothing without being able to feel”. In Pleasantville the movie the world is colorless because of the belief that color is bad a can cause disruption. In the giver emotion is thought to cause the same things. In both stories what made people and things unique is taken away and is then restored by the main character. In both texts they have a similar

In the novel, The Giver, by Lois Lowry, the topic of memories comes up throughout the story. As the book begins, Jonas is shown as a rule follower, that respects his community. However when he is selected to be the new receiver of memory, his values change. Jonas learns of pain, love, and all the things that are taken away from him. Jonas yearns for all these emotions, and he has a plan to get them back. In The Giver, the author uses tradition, emotion, and deception to develop the theme that memories

Julie of the Wolves is a realistic fiction story about 13-year-old eskimo girl who runs away from her future husband and her eskimo life. Miyax wakes up in the beginning stranded in the arctic tundra. Once she has woken up she finds herself pondering about what she has done and what she has to do. The theme in Julie of the Wolves is affected by the conflict and the point of view throughout the story. Miyax demonstrates the spirit of never giving up throughout the book. In the beginning, Miyax shows

In the novel, The Giver, Lois Lowry introduces the topic of conformity. The story takes place in a community based around sameness and uniformity. The main character, Jonas, is being trained for Receiver of Memory, and The Giver is transmitting memories to him. During this process, Jonas realizes how corrupt this community is, and, he comes up with a plan to improve his society. At the end of the story, Jonas travels to Elsewhere in an attempt to restore the town’s memories. In The Giver, Lois Lowry

In Lois Lowry’s The Giver, there is great emphasis put on the concerns about society and humankind. Some of the main themes found throughout the book, as well as other novels by Lowry, all relate back to these concerns. She displays the importance of human emotion and individuality along side the fact that utopias are non existent. In the so called Utopia where the main character Jonas resides, sameness takes precedence over uniqueness. “The community was so meticulously ordered, the choices so